"Since September 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many television viewers in the United States have become familiar with Al Jazeera as offering an alternative take on events from that presented by mainstream U.S. media, as well as disseminating anti-American invective. Westerners have
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tended toward simplistic views of Arab newspapers, radio, and television, assuming that they are all under government control and that freedom of press is non-existent. William A. Rugh, a long time observer of the Arab mass media, offers a more nuanced picture of the Arab press as it relates to the political situation in the Arab world today. Although governmental influence over the media is stronger in the Middle East than in Europe or the United States, Rugh argues that there is more diversity in the Arab media than most people in the West realize. In reality, the Arab media are coming to reflect the diversity and wide range of opinions of those within the Arab world itself. In particular, the advent of privately owned Arab satellite television in the 1990s has led to significant liberalization of the media throughout the region. Rugh concludes that a democracy of ideas and voices is slowly growing in the Arab world, and he remains guardedly optimistic about the positive role the Arab media can play in processes of democratization and nation-building." (Publisher description)
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"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women fil
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mmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed." (Publisher description)
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"Against a background of the historical, religious, geographical, climatic, political, economic and linguistic factors that make radio and television unique as they affect its development, Boyd discusses broadcasting in the Arab League countries - Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, North Yeme
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n, South Yemen, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia (omitting Somalia and Mauritania). Egypt and Saudi Arabia are covered in more detail than the other countries. The bulk of the book is taken up with these individual descriptions; an introduction discusses Arab broadcasting in general - its developments, trends and constraints - and concluding sections are concerned with international radio broadcasting in Arabic and with problems within Arab broadcasting. There is a bibliography of printed sources of various kinds and a listing of the author's personal communications. Index." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 522)
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"La presse yéménite compte deux quotidiens (1.000 exemplaires) et deux hebdomadaires (1.500 exemplaires) — Le Ministère de l'Information qui contrôle les deux stations de radiodiffusion du pays gère les services de Relations Publiques, de documentation est de cinéma du Yémen — Les 24 sall
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es de cinéma du pays sont réparties entre quatre villes. Traduction anglaise p. 129." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 81, topic code 110.1)
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"Situation der Massenmedien im Jemen - Die Presse in Taiz seit 1949 - Neue Strukturen im Herbst 1962 - Keine autonome Nachrichtenagentur - Radio Sana ist für die revolutionäre Regierung von großer Bedeutung, da die Bevölkerung sehr schlecht ausgebildet ist und die royalistische Regierung ihrerse
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its das gleiche Mittel nutzt." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1752, topic code 110.1, 210.1)
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"Situation des moyens d'information dans les pays suivants: Basutoland — Côte française des Somalis — Kenya — Tanganyika — Ouganda — Nyassaland — Rhodésie du Nord, du Sud — Somalie britannique — Union Sud Africaine — Colombie — Guyane britannique — Guyane française — Suri
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nam — Canada — Costa Rica — Etats-Unis — Guadeloupe — Guatemala = Honduras britannique — Jamaïque — Nicaragua — Panama — Salvador — Martinique — Aden — Afghanistan — Arabie Séoudite — Ceylan — Chypre — Irak — Israël — Royaume de Jordanie Hachemite — Perse — Syrie — Thaïlande — Australie et autres pays d'Europe: Irlande — Lichtenstein — Monaco — Royaume-Uni — Irlande du Nord." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1782, topic code 10, 20, 30)
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"Situation of the information media in the following countries: Basutoland [= Lesotho] — French Somaliland [Djibouti] — Kenya — Tanganyika — Uganda — Nyasaland [= Malawi] — Northern Rhodesia [= Zambia] — Southern Rhodesia [= Zimbabwe] — British Somaliland — Union of South Africa â€
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” Colombia — British Guiana — French Guiana — Surinam — Canada — Costa Rica — United States — Guadeloupe — Guatemala — British Honduras [= Belize] — Jamaica — Nicaragua — Panama — Salvador — Martinique — Aden [= Yemen] — Afghanistan — Saudi Arabia — Ceylon — Cyprus — Iraq — Israel — Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan — Persia — Syria — Thailand — Australia and some countries in Europe — Ireland — Lichtenstein — Monaco — United Kingdom — Northern Ireland." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1783, topic code 10, 20, 30)
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